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Remote Connections to Empowerment
Navigating the Gendered Digital Divide in Gondar, Ethiopia1. Auflage
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18,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Grin Verlag |
| Format: | EPUB, PDF |
| Veröffentl.: | 19.09.2014 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783656746010 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 56 |
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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: 1st Class with Distinction(93%), University of Cambridge, course: BA Geography - Gender and Development, language: English, abstract: Whilst the development of ICTs in Ethiopia has proved in many instances to be a promising tool for women's empowerment, a "complex web of factors" (Buskens & Webb, 2008) that determine access to these facilities has caused the scope of their benefit to be limited. In Ethiopia, engagements with ICTs in education and society continue to show a marked gender gap. To identify the obstacles to ICTs faced by women, the focus of analysis must extend beyond women themselves. Hence, this research has taken a multi-perspective approach, sampling a diverse range of respondents including men, women, youth, University students, IT professionals and government officials. This cross-section was taken from Gondar Town in the Amhara Region of Northern Ethiopia in order to situate the gendered barriers to ICT amongst a broader social, cultural, economic and political landscape. Therefore, since “ICT usage represents a social reality” (Wood, 2001: paragraph 5.7), “a gender lens alone becomes insufficient: other forms of social exclusions […] have to be considered” (Rowbotham, 1995:65, Morgan, Heeks & Arun, 2004).
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